The Extended Canon
Roja
रोज़ा · 1992
A village woman goes to Kashmir when her cryptologist husband is abducted, and refuses to be handled by the state.
- Director
- Mani Ratnam
- Year
- 1992
- Genre
- Drama · Thriller
- Cast
- Arvind Swamy, Madhoo
Why it's in the canon
A. R. Rahman's debut score — TIME listed it among the 10 best soundtracks of all time.
A village woman goes to Kashmir when her cryptologist husband is abducted, and refuses to be handled by the state.
Roja sits in the 1990s alongside Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Satya — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Mani Ratnam — also responsible for Dil Se.., Guru, Bombay.
- Released in 1992, in the 1990s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Thriller.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Roja (1992) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
Editorial Inclusion in the extended canon, unranked — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
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